Christmas morning!

Right around Christmas morning, Mac realized he can sit up by himself.

It's opening up a whole new world!

Donnie

Donnie and his track suit. Wicked cute!

(No, he doesn't actually wear a gold chain.)

Working backwards

That last post should have gone 'live' on November 21st.  I honestly haven't been back to the blog since, so I hadn't noticed it never posted.  So much has been going on since then -- namely an amazing trip back east and then two weeks of a cold and no sleep!  I'll post trip pics soon. But in the meantime:

I'm growing in every way.  I am still showing signs of teething but no tooth.  This week I *just* started sleeping in my big crib ... In the past few days I've added consonants to my babbling (gaaa and baaa.)... I'm starting to sit up a bit on my own and I've just started to enjoy food! Today I ate my whole lunch and dinner! Rice cereal with apple for lunch and rice cereal with pear for le diner. Last and definitely not least: last night I slept from 11-6am!!! A huge victory and a stretch of sleep not experienced since that dreaded week I turned four months old!

Six months old!?

Yes, it's true.  Six months have flown by... And yet, let's just say we've squeezed a lot of action for this family into these six months. 

One thing we have barely done is TRAVEL! By this age, KR had traveled to San Francisco, Boston, Oregon, Colorado, Florida, and was prepping for a weekend in Vegas.  Well, Mac's ready to play catch up -- tomorrow we head to Boston, and then we'll swing through the Big Apple for good measure.  

Here's a six-month old selfie, taken at 5am or so, lounging in bed with mom. 

How 'bout one more:

And since I haven't posted in a week: